On Thursday, February 17, 2011 09:23:47 am you wrote: > I'm still having trouble. My directory structure is: > > /usr/local/www/static > > +- contrib/admin/media -- symlink to django/contrib/admin/media > > +- media/admin/base_site.html -- modified version of base_site.html > > I've tried every combination of the following, but nothing is working: >
All you need here is the /usr/local/www/static any subdirectories here should be served as normal, like http://localhost/contrib/admin/media The admin template, You do not want it here. it should be in your template dir see the doc below this for that. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial02/#customize-the-admin- look-and-feel > DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/static > - does this need to be set at all? > No. > Alias /media/ /usr/loca/www/static/... > - not quite sure which directory this should point to > - I've tried all sensible options, but none work > Should be the absolute path to where you store your project media. > ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/' > - Does this simply have to be equal to whatever URL is used in the Alias > directive above? > It needs to be another alias to the absolute path of the adminmedia. > Thank you. > Ok, this is a setup I have working (when the site/backend isn't broken ;)), This one is meant to work with nginx as a gateway serving my media and proxying back to my apache config, but it should work fine without nginx. This is also mod_wsgi specific, but you can add mod_python settings. Please read the comments, domain is the domain of this box. $USER is the username on the system. (these removed for security reasons). <VirtualHost *:8080> # basics for named based virtual hosts ServerName priss.domain.com ServerAlias domain.homelinux.org ServerAdmin webmas...@domain.com # this is the root url path. # I believe this can be omitted.. graham can verify or deny # either way it works as expected with this set ServerPath / # custom log paths. ErrorLog /home/$USER/Server_Files/httpd/domain_com/apache/priss.domain.com.error_log CustomLog /home/$USER/Server_Files/httpd/domain_com/apache/priss.domain.com.access_log combined # mod wsgi settings. # adjust threads per system. # wrap with the IfModule so I can also add mod_python directives # and let apache decide what to used based on the module loaded/used. <IfModule mod_wsgi.c> WSGIDaemonProcess blog user=$USER group=$USER threads=100 WSGIDaemonProcess pastebin user=$USER group=$USER threads=100 # paster # this is a custom pastebin project that is served on a # subpath of the main url. this comes first before the main site # is served so that the main projects urls.py does not search # for this path # please note this is a completely different project served # as part of the main site. # (no control over subdomains on this box). # WSGIScriptAlias /paster /home/srv/$USER/web/projects/pastebin/apache/paster.wsgi <Directory /home/srv/$USER/web/projects/pastebin/apache/> # to make sure this runs in it's own interpretter. WSGIApplicationGroup pastebin Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> # this is the main project/site served on the root of the urls path . WSGIScriptAlias / /home//srv/$USER/gufy/domain_com/apache/gm.wsgi <Directory /home/srv/$USER/gufy/domain_com/apache/> WSGIApplicationGroup blog Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> </IfModule> ### these are the parts you want. # /media serves all my main projects media. # these do not conflict with WSGIScriptAlias # Alias has a higher precedence than WSGIScriptAlias. # MEDIA_ROOT = /var/www/htm/media # Alias /media /var/www/html/media <Directory /var/www/html/media/> SetHandler None Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> # this is the admin media. # ADMIN_MEDIA_URL = "/adminmedia/" # serves admin media for both projects. # /var/www/html/adminmedia is a copy of the django admin media found in # django/contrib/admin/media ... I'm not a fan of symlinks here. # But you can. make sure to set the right option. # Alias /adminmedia /var/www/html/adminmedia <Directory /var/www/html/adminmedia/> SetHandler None Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> # this handles all my paster projects media files. # like /media for the main project. Alias /paster/media /var/www/html/pastebinmedia <Directory /var/www/html/pastebinmedia/> SetHandler None Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> HTH Mike -- The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. -- Stanley J. Randall -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
